{"id":425521,"date":"2025-05-05T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/05\/von-der-leyen-semplificazione-ricerca\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:34:53","slug":"von-der-leyen-seeks-to-support-research-by-cutting-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/05\/von-der-leyen-seeks-to-support-research-by-cutting-red-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen seeks to support research by cutting red tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; The goal is\u00a0to attract researchers to Europe and jumpstart EU research and to do so, the idea is to simplify the\u00a0rules in the research sector after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/29\/von-der-leyen-presents-the-competitiveness-compass-simplification-is-the-new-eu-watchword\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0general principles announced in\u00a0the Competitiveness Compass<\/a>. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen\u00a0intends to extend this policy goal to\u00a0key areas of\u00a0many sectors. &#8220;<strong>We will put forward a first ever European Innovation Act <\/strong>and a Startup and Scaleup Strategy<strong> to remove regulatory <\/strong>and other barriers and to facilitate access to venture capital for innovative European startups and scaleups<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">,&#8221; she said at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.gouv.fr\/lancement-de-l-initiative-inedite-choose-europe-science-lundi-5-mai-2025-450351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choose Europe for Science conference<\/a>\u00a0organized at the University la Sorbonne in Paris at the initiative of the French government.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen does not go into details, as she often tends to do when announcing legislative initiatives. However, she promises paradigm shifts. &#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>We know that the path from fundamental research to business and to market is not straightforward or fast enough here in Europe<\/strong>,&#8221; she acknowledged. It means too much cost and too much time wasted on bureaucratic procedures. &#8220;We are ready to tackle this\u00a0head-on.&#8221; Hence, shed\u00a0pledged to &#8220;fast-track the pathway \u2013 from breakthrough science to transformative innovation and business opportunities.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MIoC0WgVRZ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/25\/universita-ue-asilo-ricercatori-usa-trump\/\">Le universit\u00e0 Ue offrono &#8220;asilo scientifico&#8221; ai ricercatori americani colpiti dai tagli di Trump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Le universit\u00e0 Ue offrono &#8220;asilo scientifico&#8221; ai ricercatori americani colpiti dai tagli di Trump&#8221; &#8212; Eunews\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/25\/universita-ue-asilo-ricercatori-usa-trump\/embed\/#?secret=nf3pXOGUXp#?secret=MIoC0WgVRZ\" data-secret=\"MIoC0WgVRZ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Regulatory simplification is probably the only area where the community executive can make a real impact, as\u00a0it can do on resources. Without going into detail, Von der Leyen announced an all-new 500 million package for research for the 2025-2027 three-year period alone. There is doubt and probability that this is not fresh money but resources from a common budget that runs up to 2027. The subsequent announcement supported this hypothesis: &#8220;<strong>We will put forward ambitious proposals on research and innovation funding in the next long-term budget<\/strong>,&#8221; the 2028-2034 MFF<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/26\/eu-budget-2028-2034-commission-proposal-could-slip-to-september-2025-if-all-goes-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first draft of which is due in September<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The call for more national commitments, which even the\u00a0 EU Commission president makes, remains to be proven. To the audience at the Sorbonne, von der Leyen confides that &#8220;<strong>for the mid- and long-term, together with our Member States, we want to reach the 3 percent of GDP target for investment in research and development by 2030<\/strong><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>.&#8221; <\/strong>However, for many member states, the possibility of spending is limited, if at all possible, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/02\/defence-13-eu-ms-stability-pact-eased\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">governments are going into debt to support the defense industry<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen, however, wants to try. &#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>We want to strengthen the free movement of knowledge and data a<\/strong>cross Europe \u2013 just as we do for goods, talents, and capital across our Single Market,&#8221; she said. Research and innovation are indispensable elements. &#8220;<strong>Without science, we simply cannot address\u00a0today&#8217;s global challenges<\/strong>, from health to new technologies, from climate to oceans.&#8221; Simplification becomes the watchword here as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Commission president announces special action plan to remove regulatory barriers and intercept venture capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":425516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710,25681],"tags":[26324,25747,30670,25893,26698,31140,27356],"class_list":["post-425521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","category-politics","tag-innovation-en","tag-investiment-en","tag-simplification-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425554,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425521\/revisions\/425554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}